Heroines Quilt IX: Me

I was an early reader. By the age of two, I could recognize characters. At three, I was already reading newspapers. In kindergarten, I often brought books with me and read stories to other children. In early 1980s China, this was something teachers and neighbors found...

Heroines Quilt IX: Mary Tyler Moore

I was a young girl during the early 1970s as our culture began to shift and opportunities opened for women, thanks to the women’s liberation movement. At this time, the Mary Tyler Moore show was my favorite television viewing, but for me it provided more than...

Heroines Quilt IX: Jue Jue

I most admire and have been inspired throughout my adolescence by my “sister” Khaing Zar. She is the woman who organizes and runs our girls’ leadership programs in our region. You see, Khaing Zar is smart, active and caring.  She is always going...

Heroines Quilt IX: Rumi

One of my heroes is Rumi from KPop Demon Hunters. She fights the demons. Watching the movie makes me happy. The movie makes me less scared. I like the songs she sings. Takedown is my favorite song. At the end Rumi tells the truth that she has the powers so she can...

Heroines Quilt IX: Terry McMillan

To know me is to know how much I adore Terry McMillan, a teenage discovery that I continue to revisit and cherish like the well kept secret she is not. Acclaimed author and peer of bell hooks and Alice Walker, McMillan’s appeal to me personally, lies in the way...

Heroines Quilt IX: Gran Dorothy

School leaver, age 13. Endlessly resourceful. Gifted quilter. Snake killer. Violin player. “Gran”, Dorothy, was a tough woman. Mother of four girls and survivor of multiple heart attacks and surgeries in her 60s to live into her early 90s, she was a role...

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